1. You can still find palm readers, but usually not phrenologists. Take a look at Daniel Robinson’s quote, on page 70: “. . . . Impact per se establishes nothing regarding the validity of adequacy of works.” In other words, because it’s popular doesn’t make it true. Can you think of any other examples, in psychology or the popular culture, of movements that have since died off, like phrenology, or ones that you suspect eventually will? I think that eventaully most past experimental studies due to new studies will soon be forgotten if not already. People are looking ahead for information which can be a punishing threat to information in the history of psychology. 2.Would there be a psychology today if Weber and Fechner had discovered a one-to-one correspondence between changes in the stimulus and changes in the sensation? Why or why not? (Careful with this one–it trips up a lot of students.) I think that there would still be a psychology today reguardless of their discovieries. Both of these men had their own ways of perceiving psychology, as well as the others who studied it and made the history.
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